Last of pictures from Elizabeth Busch class 10-27-14

These are the last pictures from the class that I have permission to post.   I'll be eager to see the comparison between these projects and those that develop in Elizabeth Busch's class at Empty Spools/Asilomar in March.

Patricia Charity  There is good depth in this one. 

Andrea Bacal   She added some color to the black and white McIntosh rose fabric. 

Andrea Bacal Both depth and motion.  A good one!

Andrea Bacal  Nice bit of blue in background.

Andrea Bacal

Gail Sims  This shows an excellent use of commercial printed fabric with the fabric painted in class. 

Gail Sims  This one is haunting, isn't it? 

Gail Sims   Another good use of the commercial fabric/painted fabric combination.  Simplify!  

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Mini compositions from the Elizabeth Busch class 10-26-14

On the fourth day of class Elizabeth Busch had the class use black and white paper to make cut or torn composition samples.  These I posted on 10-16-14.  On the last day of class she had us create five composition samples using the fabric we painted in class, plus whatever commercial fabric we chose.  Everyone didn't do the exercise and some I was unable to photograph.  Here are those I did:

Del Thomas

Gail Sims (A)

Gail Sims (B)

Gail painted a large cut of black and white sunflower commercial print which yielded some great color variations. 

Tricia Charity

Laura Bisagna

Laura's minimalist designs really appeal to me.  Why can't I whip out something like these?

Carolyn Villars

Nadine Rutman

Unknown  (Anyone like to claim them?)

These may be from Susan Root who spent more time painting than sewing.

Andrea Bacal

Andrea incorporated curves and circles in her designs, the only adventuress in the class. 

Deb Mackay

Deb uses the same spontenaity that she uses in her marbling. 

It has been my observation that composition is just about the weakest part of the art quilt world.  Myself included!  Doing exercises like this and sharing them with others who are gifted in critique would bring a big improvement in that deficiency.

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Fourth Day of Elizabeth Busch class 10-16-14

This is more about the students in the class than the work they were doing.  This morning Elizabeth Busch had us clean off all the painted fabric that we had pinned up on our design boards and started us on composing our quilts using that painted fabric.  I wish that I had planned ahead a bit more and created fabric that would actually work together when cut up. In some of these pictures you can see a few pieces of the painted fabric.  

 

Sherry Kleinman and Tricia Charity

 Carolyn Villars, Sandra Lauterbach, and Carol Sebastian-Neely. 

Nadine Rutman (back to camera), Sandra Lauterbach, Carolyn Villars, Susan Root.

Deb Mackay starting her first composition.

Andrea Bacal starting her first composition. 

Gail Sims - some of her painted fabric on her design board.

To the left of that is my design board with painted fabric still pinned to it.

Laura Bisagna to the left and Andi Perejda cutting hand painted fabric on the right.

Carol Sebastian-Neely and Jeanne Surber.

 

Here is my design board at the end of the day.  I have four compositions in progress.  Something that Elizabeth said we should not do; hard to break old habits.

This is the composition I have done the most on.  In the trash I found a bookmark with a bird on it and, since all my quilts have a bird, I just pinned it up. 

 

Yesterday Elizabeth had us do a composition exercise.  She gave us each five white cards and a sheet of block construction paper.  We were to cut four different compositions and glue them to the white cards.  #1 Cut one piece.  #2 Cut two pieces.  #3 Cut three pieces  #4 Cut as many pieces as you wished.  For #5 we were to tear the paper.   She took them all to her hotel room and looked them over last evening, returning them today to pin up  on the board.

 

There is masking tape dividing the sections and yellow sticky notes with the number of pieces on the cards in each section (14 students, so 14 cards).   Top left is #1 (mine is the spiral).  Top right is #2 (mine is the flower looking thing with a spiral stem - not a composition, but a picture).  Bottom left is #3 (mine is the leaf with spiral tendril).   She pinned them up with the most successful in the top row of the sections, then going down to those that aren't so successful. 

Here are #4 and #5.  On the left are the cards we could use as many pieces as we wished (mine is the spiral in the top row and is three pieces).  On the right are the compositions made with torn paper (mine is the right end in the third row). 

It was a very interesting and educational exercise.  Some of the pieces are more effective turned another direction, some are ambiguous, some are too intricate and some are "pictures", some are just shapes.   As we start to compose our quilts we need to think about all these things. 

 

I have no idea why this last picture is so large.  Picasa shows all the pictures I have used as being the same size.  Computer gremlins? 

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